1.5 million downloads of LibreOffice 7.6! - The Document Foundation Blog
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Two weeks ago, we released LibreOffice 7.6, our new major version of the office suite. And so far we’ve had 1,587,383 downloads from our site! (So that doesn’t include Linux distributions that package it themselves.) We hope all users are enjoying it, and the many new features. Some more stats: 31,519 impressions of the announcement […]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4802776

As you know, this will be the final version of LO to have Semantic Versioning; all future releases will have Calendar Versioning.

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
      741·
      9 months ago

      Probably zero, since LibreOffice is a part of the repo.

      And so far we’ve had 1,587,383 downloads from our site! (So that doesn’t include Linux distributions that package it themselves.)

    • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I think it’s nice for end users regardless. Very easy to tell the age of your install.

      Especially when a project is fairly mature and not making breaking api changes regularly.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.world
    12·
    9 months ago

    Hey I contributed 2 of those just this month reinstalling Windows after an update broke my raid array by modifying the partitions on one of the drives rather than the array. And then decided the drive was corrupt. And then finally accepting this as the last straw and giving up and installing Linux as my primary OS. Only keeping Windows for the few games that require it, or I’d just run a VM for the few other times I might need it.

  • alansuspect@aussie.zone
    8·
    9 months ago

    Is this the best open source doc editor? I’m slowly degoogling and using drive/docs is a hard one to move away from. Can LO open Google docs?

    • TheImpressiveXOP
      12·
      9 months ago

      It’s more of an alternative to Microsoft Office, but it is mostly considered THE open source office suite for GNU/Linux.

      For something cloud-based, you may want to consider OnlyOffice. I’ve never used it, so I can’t say how good it is.

  • yesdogishere@kbin.social
    102·
    9 months ago

    sadly, LibreWrite still has random crashes, and omg their auto bullet system is totally hopeless.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      131·
      9 months ago

      If you could recreate the crashes and get those steps into a bug report that would be great for the developers.

    • Anamana@feddit.de
      101·
      9 months ago

      I just wish they would get enough funding (governmental?) to make it more like the g suite, which is based on it. UX is still a nightmare.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      9 months ago

      My s/o has regular crashes in Windows when I don’t remember when I last had one in Linux. Her version is less often updated than mine (I have to lay my hands on her machine to do it manually) but the problem tends to persist, although maybe a bit less lately.

      I suspect that not all platforms perform the same.

      • DetachablePianist
        5·
        9 months ago

        Check out the Chocolatey package manager for Windows. It makes updates for all our common packages available through git/yum/brew easily installed/updated on Windows. PowerShell will never be anywhere near as nice as sitting at a proper linux terminal, but Chocolatey makes the Windows experience slightly more bearable when you need to use it.

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          Thanks for the pointer, I’ll look into that.

          I haven’t really used Windows seriously since before they switched to NT, so I just have no idea what tools are available for it.

        • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          I just use winget to update Libreoffice since it’s already there in windows 10/11.

          “Winget update LibreOffice” in a power shell terminal.

          Updating it manually sucks.

      • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I use it on windows daily for work reports. No crashes. Maybe depends on what features you’re using.

        On Linux I’ve found that the flatpak is more reliable than other delivery formats for whatever reason.

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
      51·
      9 months ago

      I have never had librewrite crash but I also don’t do use it extensively. Like maybe a doc a month.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Should probably put it on the MS Store, because somebody else already has and is charging money for it…

  • bahmanmEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    Would be lovely to have a download per release diagram along w/ the release date (b/c Summer matters in the FOSS world 😆)

  • millie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    119·
    9 months ago

    It still sucks though. It doesn’t play nice with dark mode on Windows at all. I’ve been trying to get away from Google docs and I was hoping Libre would be a decent alternative, but it just feels bloated and clunky in comparison. I really wish it didn’t.

    If anyone has alternatives I’m all ears.

    • glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de
      71·
      9 months ago

      It doesn’t suck, it’s just different from what you are used to. Especially the compatibility to Excel-Formulars impresses me.

      But of course there are open source alternatives. OnlyOffice is often recommendet if you prefer the Microsoft Office look. I think you could also self host it to make it a real alternative to google docs, but I haven’t looked into it.

      Avoid Openoffice, it sounds similar to Onlyoffice. It is the predecessor of libreoffice and deprecated.